More Than a Place : The Origins of a Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt

by DuBois, Lisa A.

• ISBN13: 9781577363873
• ISBN10: 1577363876
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-15
• Publisher: Providence House Pub

Summary

When Vanderbilt University Hospital embedded a children's hospital within its new medical building in 1980, it represented a victory for those who had fought to establish a world-class children's hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. It took the combined efforts of the Junior League of Nashville, the Council of Jewish Women, other community leaders, parents, dedicated medical professionals, and even a state Supreme Court case more than half a century to make Vanderbilt Children's Hospital a reality. Along with disease and pain, the hospital's advocates battled racism, religious differences, politicians, academics, lawsuits, and hospital administration to ensure that children in middle Tennessee were served by a medical facility dedicated to them. Engagingly written and rich in historic detail, 'More Than a Place' traces the development of the children's hospital from its genesis as the Junior League Home for Crippled Children to its establishment as a premiere children's hospital.

Author Biography

LISA A. DUBOIS earned a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a master's degree in biomedical communications from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. A native of Greenville, South Carolina, DuBois has been an award-winning freelance writer for more than twenty years. A former Nashville Banner reporter, DuBois has penned stories for newspapers, magazines, radio, and video. Her work has appeared in the Tennessean and Nashville Scene newspapers, and in such magazines as Variety, Vanderbilt Magazine, Vanderbilt Business, Vanderbilt Lawyer, and Lens. DuBois resides with her husband and their two children in Nashville, Tennessee. More Than a Place is her first book.

Table of Contents

Illustration Credits	p. viii
Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Prologue	p. 1
Genesis	p. 3
Dynamos from Dixie	p. 9
Al Menah Shriners Pitch In	p. 21
The Chief Arrives	p. 35
On the Brink of Financial Catastrophe	p. 53
The Scourge of Polio	p. 63
Nashville's Jewish Community Weighs In	p. 75
The Right Thing To Do	p. 89
Jousting for Power and Control	p. 103
Saving the Smallest Ones	p. 121
The Medical Paradigm Shifts	p. 131
A New Chief, New Plans	p. 143
Courting the Community	p. 155
More Than a Place	p. 167
Friends Arrive on the Scene	p. 179
Growth Spurt	p. 191
Establishing an Identity	p. 207
The Junior League of Nashville Stands Trial	p. 219
New Battles and Beginnings	p. 229
The Southern Dichotomy	p. 245
Epilogue	p. 249
Notes	p. 257
Bibliography	p. 268
Index	p. 270
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